Monday, July 21, 2025

Story Post: Barrels Unloaded at Coppers, or, the Kinetics of Yield

A genre of game that BlogNomic has never really considered is arcade action-puzzle video games, things like Tetris, Puzzle-Bobble, Dr Mario, Wilmot’s Warehouse, or indeed, the original Donkey Kong, in which a giant ape yeeted barrels at an oncoming plumber. This dynasty will consider that space - how to systematise, in a blog format, the sense of ordering, sorting and evading, with or without the pressure of a ticking clock, while playing as policemen of Scotland Yard on the trail of a rogue cooper and his barrel cannon. Certainly more of a sandbox dynasty than anything else.

posted by JonathanDark at 21 Jul 2025 12:39:00 UTC Comments (4)

Comments

Kevan: he/him

21-07-2025 15:00:08 UTC

Score 3. This feels a little hallucinatory. Is Donkey Kong really an action-puzzle game? Is the dynasty simulating an existing format from videogaming, or creating an unregulated sandbox? Is it about coppers or coopers?

Clucky: he/him

21-07-2025 15:11:21 UTC

Score 2. the two separate titles split by an “or” kinda feels like it defeats the point of the backronyms to me. The theme itself seems fun but nothing too special.

Darknight: he/him

21-07-2025 16:05:14 UTC

Score 3, interesting idea but clunky title

Bucky:

21-07-2025 18:43:50 UTC

Score 3 as the acronym works but a dynasty about shooting cannons at police officers - and “unloading barrels” is a common term for an artillery salvo - is not one I’d want to play.

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